Throughout the year, expert Studio School instructors present classes and workshops in painting, drawing, printmaking and design for students of all levels. Students work with industry-standard equipment and materials, such as professional painting and drawing easels, lighting and an etching printmaking press.
Learn more about the instructors' backgrounds and teaching approaches here.
Questions about a multi-week class? Tuition for multi-week courses does not include materials. When signing up for a class, all students agree to abide by the policies set forth in the Student Handbook.
SPRING SESSION
Eight-week classes | March 27-May 21
Four-week classes | Session 1 | March 27-April 23
Four-week classes | Session 2 | April 24-May 21
REGISTRATION DEADLINES
Eight-week and four-week Session 1 | March 20
Four-week Session 2 | April 20
Interested in more than just 2-D? See our full class and workshop list here.
Eight-Week Class | Bad At Drawing
- Date 6-8 p.m., Wednesdays, April 5-May 24
- Cost $225
- Location The Studios | Flex Studio
- Instructor / Presenter Isa Rodriguez and Dylan Cale Jones
- Age Requirements 18+
- Contact studioschool@okcontemp.org
You’re not bad at drawing. Everyone can draw. When you draw, you bring things into existence. (Woah.) Join us to draw new possibilities for yourself and others. Doesn’t that sound more fun than the voice in your head that says you can’t draw? Shut up, head voice. Artists Isa Rodriguez and Dylan Cale Jones will teach you how to draw using laughter, smudging, tracing and scribbling. We know you know can scribble. You knew how to scribble before you knew how to stop using diapers. Old skill—you got this.
Syllabus and materials list available Feb. 24.
Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly and times are posted outside each studio.
Eight-Week Class | Drawing Fundamentals
- Date 6-8:00 p.m., Mondays, March 27-May 15
- Cost $225
- Location The Studios | Flex Studio
- Instructor / Presenter Chris Brizzard
- Age Requirements 16+
- Contact studioschool@okcontemp.org
Prerequisites: Beginners welcome! No experience necessary.
Artist and instructor and Chris Brizzard believes that anyone can learn to draw if they are taught the correct way. Join this fun and supportive class to learn basic drawing principles, such as shape, proportion, blocking in forms and depicting light and shadow. If you start the class not knowing how to draw, you will end the class drawing from life!
Course syllabus and materials list available Feb. 24.
Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly, and times are posted outside each studio.
Eight-Week Class | Printmaking: T-shirts, Totes, Coasters, Stickers
- Date 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturdays, April 1-May 20
- Cost $225
- Location The Studios | Flex Studio
- Instructor / Presenter Wesley Zach Kramer
- Age Requirements 16+
- Contact studioschool@okcontemp.org
Make your own merch! Printmaker Wesley Kramer will teach you how to use woodcut printmaking to print on T-shirts, totes, coasters, stickers, and more. No printmaking experience necessary.
Syllabus and materials list available Feb. 24.
Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly and times are posted outside each studio.
Four-Week Class | Watercolor from Photographs
- Date 6-8 p.m., Thursdays, May 4-25
- Cost $150
- Location Main Building | In Honor of Bryan and Kendall Hall Studio Two
- Instructor / Presenter Jenny Elton
- Age Requirements 16+
- Contact studioschool@okcontemp.org
Work with artist Jenny Elton to transform the pics on your phone into custom watercolor paintings. No painting experience necessary. All you need are some photographs, and if you don’t have any, just pretend all the stuff on Instagram is your real life.
Course syllabi and materials list available Feb. 24.
Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly and times are posted outside each studio.
Workshop | Draw Live Animals at Mollie Spencer Farm
- Date 12-2 p.m., Saturday, April 29
- Cost $65
- Location Mollie Spencer Farm
- Instructor / Presenter Claire Holloway
- Age Requirements 16+
- Contact studioschool@okcontemp.org
The Mollie Spencer Farm (in Yukon) promotes the health, well-being and humane treatment of animals while also providing refuge for a few farm animals and natural occurring wildlife.
Artist Claire Holloway will show you how to create quick graphite sketches of live animals and then use pastel to add color.
Participants will meet at Mollie Spencer Farm. Transportation to the farm is not included.
Registration closes April 24.
If the workshop is postponed due to weather or unforeseen instructor circumstances, the rain date is May 6.
Four-Week Class | Watercolor like Warhol
- Date 6-8 p.m., Thursdays, March 30-April 20
- Cost $150
- Location Main Building | In Honor of Bryan and Kendall Hall Studio Two
- Instructor / Presenter Sylvie Mayer
- Age Requirements 16+
- Contact studioschool@okcontemp.org
Be inspired by the Andy Warhol work in The Art of Food exhibition. Learn to create your own compositions in early Andy Warhol style. Artist Sylvie Mayer will show you how to make blotted ink illustrations and add color using watercolor.
No drawing or watercolor experience needed. Be your own Warhol—bananas and Campbell’s Soup can not included.
Course syllabus and materials list available Feb. 24.
Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly and times are posted outside each studio.
